飢

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See also: 饥
飢 U+98E2, 飢
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-98E2
← 飡
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 飣 →
飢 U+2FA02, 飢
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2FA02
← 𩖶
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 䬳 →

Translingual

Han character

飢 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+2, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人戈竹弓 (OIHN), four-corner 87710, composition ⿰飠几(GHTJV) or ⿰𩙿几(K))

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1416, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44023
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1940, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4441, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+98E2

Chinese

trad. 飢
simp. 饥*
alternative forms 饑

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (几) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
肌 *kril
飢 *kril
机 *kril, *krilʔ
虮 *kril
几 *krilʔ
麂 *krilʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kril) : semantic 食 + phonetic 几 (OC *krilʔ).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 飢
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 脂 (15)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 居夷切
Baxter kjij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kiɪ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ki/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kjɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ki/
Li
Rong 		/ki/
Wang
Li 		/ki/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ki/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jī
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gei1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 飢
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jī
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kij ›
Old
Chinese 		/*Cə.k<r>ə/
English hungry

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 飢
Reading # 1/1
No. 5757
Phonetic
component 		几
Rime
group 		脂
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		飢
Old
Chinese 		/*kril/

Definitions

飢

  1. hunger; starving
  2. (fossil word or archaic) famine
  3. Alternative form of 饑／饥 (“crop failure; famine”)

Compounds

See also

References

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 飢 – see 饑 (“crop failure; famine; a year in which harvest is poor”).
(This character is the former (1969–1976) Singaporean simplified and variant form of 饑).
Notes:

Japanese

Shinjitai 飢
Kyūjitai
[1]
飢󠄁
飢+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
飢󠄄
飢+&#xE0104;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

飢

(Jōyō kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
  • Kun: うえる (ueru, 飢える, Jōyō)

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
飢
き
Grade: S
on'yomi

Affix

飢(き) • (ki) 

  1. hungry; starve

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
飢
え
Grade: S
on'yomi

Noun

飢(え) • (e) ←ゑ (we)?

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of 飢え (ue, “hunger; starvation”)

References

  1. ^ “飢”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

Korean

Hanja

飢 (eumhun 주릴 기 (juril gi))

  1. hanja form? of 기 (“hunger, starving”)
  2. hanja form? of 기 (“hungry”)
  3. hanja form? of 기 (“famine”)

Vietnamese

Han character

飢: Hán Nôm readings: cơ, ki

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